One of my neighbors knocked on my door today (UPS story)

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jlee

jlee

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I ordered an SSD from TigerDirect shipped via ShopRunner 2 day. It showed as delivered yesterday (tracking read "Released - other" in Tempe AZ, while I live in Phoenix).

A few minutes ago, a neighbor from down the street comes and knocks on my door. He hands me an opened box containing a TigerDirect flyer that appears to have been run over, and a still-packaged (albeit dusty) SSD. He explained that he found it spread all over the street and the SSD/package was under the tree in his yard.

Meanwhile, UPS says it was delivered.

I have a phone call to make...
 
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jlee said:
I ordered an SSD from TigerDirect shipped via ShopRunner 2 day. It showed as delivered yesterday (tracking read "Released - other" in Tempe AZ, while I live in Phoenix).

A few minutes ago, a neighbor from down the street comes and knocks on my door. He hands me an opened box containing a TigerDirect flyer that appears to have been run over, and a still-packaged (albeit dusty) SSD. He explained that he found it spread all over the street and the SSD/package was under the tree in his yard.

Meanwhile, UPS says it was delivered.

I have a phone call to make...
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Did the tornado have to sign for it?
 
Gillbot

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02ranger

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jlee said:
I ordered an SSD from TigerDirect shipped via ShopRunner 2 day. It showed as delivered yesterday (tracking read "Released - other" in Tempe AZ, while I live in Phoenix).

A few minutes ago, a neighbor from down the street comes and knocks on my door. He hands me an opened box containing a TigerDirect flyer that appears to have been run over, and a still-packaged (albeit dusty) SSD. He explained that he found it spread all over the street and the SSD/package was under the tree in his yard.

Meanwhile, UPS says it was delivered.

I have a phone call to make...
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Could they have left in on your porch or at your door and you didn't know it? Maybe somebody stole it, but once they opened it and realized what it was they just tossed it down. I'd still be pissed off, though.

Edit: I just realized, they said "Released" cause that was a drive-by delivery. They tossed it out the window going down the road like a paper boy. Gotta pay extra for them to stop the truck nowadays......... lol
 
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mizzou

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i've also had the problem with ups saying shit was delivered a day or several days before, thankfully when my neighbor delivered it, it wasn't run over by a tornado
 
OBLAMA2009

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jlee said:
I ordered an SSD from TigerDirect shipped via ShopRunner 2 day. It showed as delivered yesterday (tracking read "Released - other" in Tempe AZ, while I live in Phoenix).

A few minutes ago, a neighbor from down the street comes and knocks on my door. He hands me an opened box containing a TigerDirect flyer that appears to have been run over, and a still-packaged (albeit dusty) SSD. He explained that he found it spread all over the street and the SSD/package was under the tree in his yard.

Meanwhile, UPS says it was delivered.

I have a phone call to make...
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be glad it wasnt sent usps, they wouldnt reimbiurse the item or the shipping
 
jlee

jlee

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Heh, tracking showed 3pm delivery - I was home at 4 and it was definitely not here. I don't think it ever was, given that tracking shows it as delivered in another city. I'm in a quiet cul-de-sac lot, almost no traffic. I believe this was found near the street/intersection that leads to my house.
 
BoomerD

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I blame Mixolydian. He's our resident UPS fuck-up.

Everything UPS fucks up is his fault.
 
her209

her209

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Your neighbor stole it and didn't know what it was so he ran it over with his car and then claimed he found it under his tree.
 
BarkingGhostar

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In the thirteen years I have lived in my house I have had one delivery anomaly from UPS, none from FedEx and DHL, and way too many to count from USPS. And considering the one shipping anomaly was a) during the holiday season, and b) went to another house in my subdivision with parts of the same street name and same number, I let it go.

But maybe I would have felt different if I had gotten the package in the manner the OP did, or not at all.
 
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BarkingGhostar said:
In the thirteen years I have lived in my house I have had one delivery anomaly from UPS, none from FedEx and DHL, and way too many to count from USPS.
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Same here. My home office sits in the front of the house with a view of the front yard and porch. UPS has "air mailed" a couple boxes from the front step (which is about 15 feet from the front door), but for the most part they've been fine. My horror stories all stem from USPS... mostly jamming packages into my mailbox so they don't have to make the trip to the door.

But the best one was last year. I'm sitting here working at my desk when I hear a loud screech. It's the mail chick. She's damn near got her vehicle up on two wheels as she careens AROUND my mailbox and up my driveway. She then slams on the brakes and stops about an inch short of ramming my garage door. She makes it too my front step and, you guessed it, throws the package against my front door. As she flies backwards out of my driveway, I'm barreling out the front door (I sit about 10 feet from the door). She then proceeds to run over my garbage can (one of those big blue Rumpke containers) and take off down the street without delivering any else's mail (presumably because she saw me chasing her).

I called our post office and relayed the whole story to them and they were shockingly very cool about the whole thing (read: great lip service). About 20 minutes later, she comes flying down the street again to deliver all the mail she missed. I caught up to her and tore her a new one, of course, but she just pretended like she didn't know what I was talking about.

At any rate, that was her last day (on my route at least - who knows if she got fired or just reassigned).
 
rh71

rh71

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so many situations where surveillance cameras would get you money back.
 
bradly1101

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I always order slow shipping so that it will come USPS. That way I always get it, with the others something often goes wrong, and it becomes a big hassle to get my stuff.
 
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cherrytwist

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Reminds me of the time I had a pc case shipped to my house (Newegg/UPS). It was missing for several days and I had forgotten about it. I see it shows delivered and someone else signed for it. I made a guess that our "hippie neighbors" had received it, as there were at least four tenants. It had been sitting for days in their foyer and evidently they were too negligent to notice this huge box sitting in a small space with a different address. Morons.

Glad your SSD is in good shape. I'd call UPS/Newegg and raise a stink but that's me.
 
jlee

jlee

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So, today we find another ripped open box in my backyard by the pool. Amazon > UPS > "SurePost" delivery location "porch."

Time for a security camera.
 
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Zargon

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BikeJunkie said:
Same here. My home office sits in the front of the house with a view of the front yard and porch. UPS has "air mailed" a couple boxes from the front step (which is about 15 feet from the front door), but for the most part they've been fine. My horror stories all stem from USPS... mostly jamming packages into my mailbox so they don't have to make the trip to the door.

But the best one was last year. I'm sitting here working at my desk when I hear a loud screech. It's the mail chick. She's damn near got her vehicle up on two wheels as she careens AROUND my mailbox and up my driveway. She then slams on the brakes and stops about an inch short of ramming my garage door. She makes it too my front step and, you guessed it, throws the package against my front door. As she flies backwards out of my driveway, I'm barreling out the front door (I sit about 10 feet from the door). She then proceeds to run over my garbage can (one of those big blue Rumpke containers) and take off down the street without delivering any else's mail (presumably because she saw me chasing her).

I called our post office and relayed the whole story to them and they were shockingly very cool about the whole thing (read: great lip service). About 20 minutes later, she comes flying down the street again to deliver all the mail she missed. I caught up to her and tore her a new one, of course, but she just pretended like she didn't know what I was talking about.

At any rate, that was her last day (on my route at least - who knows if she got fired or just reassigned).
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so around me they do packages, then mail. maybe you are just too slow to realize that's how they work :p
 
EliteRetard

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See this is why they used to build front porches...

Now most houses have these crappy little hoods over the front door so there's no where to sit with your rocking chair and shotgun.

Suppose you could just setup in the garage with the door open.
 
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